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Student achievement and schooling choice in low-income countries: evidence from Ghana
Paul Glewwe,Hanan G. Jacoby +1 more
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This article presented new evidence on the impact of school characteristics on student achievement using an unusually rich data set from Ghana, showing that repairing classrooms is a cost-effective investment in Ghana, relative to providing more instructional materials and improving teacher quality.Abstract:
In this paper we present new evidence on the impact of school characteristics on student achievement using an unusually rich data set from Ghana. We deal with two potentially important selectivity issues in the developing country context: the sorting of higher ability children into better schools, and the high incidence of both delayed school enrollment and early leaving. Our empirical results do not reveal any strong selectivity bias. We also highlight the indirect effects of improving school quality on student achievement through increased grade attainment. A cost-benefit analysis, taking into account these indirect effects, shows that repairing classrooms (a policy option ignored in most education production function studies) is a cost-effective investment in Ghana, relative to providing more instructional materials and improving teacher quality.read more
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Chapter 34 Human resources: Empirical modeling of household and family decisions
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Endogeneity of schooling in the wage function: evidence from the rural philippines
Abstract: This paper evaluates the effect (in terms of private returns) of investment in education on wages in the rural Philippines. Statistical endogeneity of education in the wage function may result from (1) unobserved determinants of education that also influence wages and/or (2) measurement error. Panel data are used that provide relevant instruments, particularly distance to schools and measures of household resources, at the time of schooling, to endogenize investments in education while estimating wage functions. The estimated return to education increases more than 60 percent when education is endogenized. This increase is robust to the inclusion of a measure of health, models of selection into the sample, and measurement error. The paper suggests how heterogeneous returns to education might account for the magnitude of the downward bias in returns to schooling. CONTENTS Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether human capital, learning-by-doing, gender, and family status affect the division of labor within households, and found that the intra-household division of labour is influenced by comparative advantage based on human capital and by long-lasting returns to learning by doing.
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An Exogeneity Test for a Simultaneous Equation Tobit Model with an Application to Labor Supply
Richard Smith,Richard Blundell +1 more
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Educational Performance of the Poor: Lessons from Rural Northeast Brazil
TL;DR: In this paper, the EDURURAL project was used to evaluate the performance of primary schools in rural northeast Brazil and showed that improving the quality of schools could lead to gains in efficiency that more than offset the direct costs of the improvements.
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Education, Productivity, and Inequality: The East African Natural Experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how the expansion of the educational system affects productivity and the growth and distribution of income in Kenya and Tanzania, and investigate the effects of country differences in the quantity and quality education on output.